Are these boxers bona fide great HALL OF FAME quality?

[DonTaseMeBrah]

I need some help from the level headed boxing history buffs about this subject.

True bona fide Hall of Famers pink Floyd Mayweather Jr. has fought.

Diego Corrales

Arturo Gatti

Jose Luis Castillo

Genaro Hernandez

Ricky Hatton.

Seems like the nuthuggers just want to start putting every recognizable name on his resume in the HOF just for the sake of their argument.

I dont think none of these guys are true HOF. Gatti & Corrales will probably go in due to their tragic deaths & hatton because of his popularity.

I would like to know your objective & unbiased opinions.

[Thread Stealer]

I don't know, there's a big difference between "bonafide great" and "Hall of Fame Quality", at least going by who's in the IBHOF as it is.

[DonTaseMeBrah]

I don't know, there's a big difference between "bonafide great" and "Hall of Fame Quality", at least going by who's in the IBHOF as it is.

What i should have said is true hall of fame caliber fighter. I know there are lost of fighters in the HOF that should not be in. Im talking about fighters who should be in.

Base the criteria on fighters who should be in the hall of fame rightfully so, do these fighters get in?

[Marcov]

I voted Gatti because he was one of the most exciting fighters this side of Saad Muhammad. But all these guys are lacking in the accomplishment cattegory.

[1SILVA]

I need some help from the level headed boxing history buffs about this subject.

True bona fide Hall of Famers pink Floyd Mayweather Jr. has fought.

Diego Corrales

Arturo Gatti

Jose Luis Castillo

Genaro Hernandez

Ricky Hatton.

Seems like the nuthuggers just want to start putting every recognizable name on his resume in the HOF just for the sake of their argument.

I dont think none of these guys are true HOF. Gatti & Corrales will probably go in due to their tragic deaths & hatton because of his popularity.

I would like to know your objective & unbiased opinions.

I don't believe any of these guys are HOF worthy. I wouldn't vote for any of these guys over Lloyd marshall, Donald Curry and Naseem Hamed, 3 men that aren't in.

[BennyST]

Maybe a couple (Castillo? Gatti?) of them will get in, but I don't think any of them are true HOF worthy fighters.

Hatton certainly not in my opinion. Has one great win over a faded fighter. Corrales no also. He had four good wins over his whole career, being Casamayor whom he also lost to twice though, Castillo, whom he also got knocked out by, Freitas and Gainer. Castillo is a possibility with wins over Johnston, Bazan, Casamayor, Corrales, etc but then he's also been knocked out about twenty times, so that doesn't help any. Gatti also has some good wins, but again, interspersed with a lot of losses to guys he would have needed to beat to have a chance. His greatest wins aren't particularly stunning either, though there are some good fighters on there certainly.

They were all good champs for their time and did well, but HOF is about being a great champ that would be so in any time and I just don't think those guys cut it. The fact is though that there are some other guys that are probably about equal in accomplishments that are in there, who shouldn't be, so what's to say these guys won't?

The HOF is good, but I think the longer it goes on the more it will end up being a popularity contest with guys like Hatton, Gatti, Corrales etc getting in when in all reality they don't deserve to, even though they gave us fans hugely entertaining fights and great memories.

The HOF should be about recognising the greatest champions for their skill and accomplishment, and not for their popularity, though no doubt, like everything else, it will become exactly that.

Anyway, no, I don't think they are true HOF'ers.

[1SILVA]

Maybe a couple (Castillo? Gatti?) of them will get in, but I don't think any of them are true HOF worthy fighters.

Hatton certainly not in my opinion. Has one great win over a faded fighter. Corrales no also. He had four good wins over his whole career, being Casamayor whom he also lost to twice though, Castillo, whom he also got knocked out by, Freitas and Gainer. Castillo is a possibility with wins over Johnston, Bazan, Casamayor, Corrales, etc but then he's also been knocked out about twenty times, so that doesn't help any. Gatti also has some good wins, but again, interspersed with a lot of losses to guys he would have needed to beat to have a chance. His greatest wins aren't particularly stunning either, though there are some good fighters on there certainly.

They were all good champs for their time and did well, but HOF is about being a great champ that would be so in any time and I just don't think those guys cut it. The fact is though that there are some other guys that are probably about equal in accomplishments that are in there, who shouldn't be, so what's to say these guys won't?

The HOF is good, but I think the longer it goes on the more it will end up being a popularity contest with guys like Hatton, Gatti, Corrales etc getting in when in all reality they don't deserve to, even though they gave us fans hugely entertaining fights and great memories.

The HOF should be about recognising the greatest champions for their skill and accomplishment, and not for their popularity, though no doubt, like everything else, it will become exactly that.

Anyway, no, I don't think they are true HOF'ers.

Excellent point and well said.

[DonTaseMeBrah]

Maybe a couple (Castillo? Gatti?) of them will get in, but I don't think any of them are true HOF worthy fighters.

Hatton certainly not in my opinion. Has one great win over a faded fighter. Corrales no also. He had four good wins over his whole career, being Casamayor whom he also lost to twice though, Castillo, whom he also got knocked out by, Freitas and Gainer. Castillo is a possibility with wins over Johnston, Bazan, Casamayor, Corrales, etc but then he's also been knocked out about twenty times, so that doesn't help any. Gatti also has some good wins, but again, interspersed with a lot of losses to guys he would have needed to beat to have a chance. His greatest wins aren't particularly stunning either, though there are some good fighters on there certainly.

They were all good champs for their time and did well, but HOF is about being a great champ that would be so in any time and I just don't think those guys cut it. The fact is though that there are some other guys that are probably about equal in accomplishments that are in there, who shouldn't be, so what's to say these guys won't?

The HOF is good, but I think the longer it goes on the more it will end up being a popularity contest with guys like Hatton, Gatti, Corrales etc getting in when in all reality they don't deserve to, even though they gave us fans hugely entertaining fights and great memories.

The HOF should be about recognising the greatest champions for their skill and accomplishment, and not for their popularity, though no doubt, like everything else, it will become exactly that.

Anyway, no, I don't think they are true HOF'ers.

I don't believe any of these guys are HOF worthy. I wouldn't vote for any of these guys over Lloyd marshall, Donald Curry and Naseem Hamed, 3 men that aren't in.

thanks for the responses guys. make sure you vote.

[mickey malone]

None of them..

Hatton's KO loss to Pacquiao is still fresh in eveyones mid, so he gets laughed out of it without consideration, but in truth, he'd have probably battered Gatti & Hernandez, has KO'd Castllio who had already beaten Corrales..
However, all 5 are still better candidates than Eddie Perkins or Barry McGuigan..

[StarshipTrooper]

The problem with boxing's hall of fame is that it isn't a measure of greatness but rather popularity. Any fighter with a sizable fan following will get in which means Gatti is a lock and probably Mickey Ward too. The standards are just different than those of the baseball and football hall of fames. That's one of the reasons I never refer to people fighting "hall-of-famers" but rather narrow it to down to ATGs.

Poet